MLS reportedly will return all 27 US-based teams to the US Open Cup

Nashville SC won the 2025 Us Open Cup, beating Austin FC in the final.Photograph: Icon Sportswire/Getty ImagesMajor League Soccer will allow all of its 27 US-based teams to participate in the US Open Cup next year, according to a report from Backheeled.The move would bring to an end a three-year period in which MLS withheld teams from the United States’ oldest soccer competition, a single-elimination cup that has been running continuously since 1914, with only two editions skipped (2020 an